Re: idle connection timeout ...

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 01:04:55 -0400,
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > The per db/user stuff is stored in the pg_database/pg_shadow tables per
> > row, so they exist in permanent storage.
>
> I have a question about this. This stuff is per user OR per db right?
> When I see per db/user I get the impression that users can have different
> settings depending on which db they connect to. But looking at alter
> database and alter user it looks like settings are per database or
> per user, but there isn't a way to (in general) set something that
> applies to a particular user when connecting to a particular database.
> If there is a way to do that, I would be interested in a hint where to
> look in the documentation.

You are right, there isn't a per/db-user combination setting. I think
one is done before the other, so you could try to set things that way,
maybe in a plpgsql procedure. I think you could do SELECT
db_user_set(); and have that function do that sets for you.

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